What is the retrieve you feel like you have done the best on? I fish an area in the morning summer months with water temps in the low 80's and active bass. I know I'm gonna get a lot of "figure out what the bass want" answers but I just want to know what the best retrieve is with my water conditions I can use.

I keep it moving and popping, very similar to a walk the dog style retrieve.  I don't move it as fast as I might move a buzz bait, but I keep it moving.

I alternate with a pop/pause retrieve, changing the length of the pauses anywhere between 2 and 15 seconds, and a walk the dog retrieve. Just have to let the bass tell you what they want.

pop-pop-pop-POP-pause-repeat

Pop and pause a second or 2 over walking the dog for me.

30 years ago I fished a Pop-R for the first time on a trip to Ky Lake.  It was mid-May and the surface temp at 5AM was in the high 70's.  I was fishing buckbushes during the post-spawn by throwing past the bush, then absolutely BURNING it back to the bush and killing it.  That's when they would absolutely unload on it.  Best week of largemouth topwater fishing I've ever had in my life.  They hit that popper from sunup to sundown for 5 days!  Talk about giggle 'n laugh......

Depends.  If the water is pretty open I do a Pop, pop, pop pause.  I like to steer them around in lilly pads where it's more of a hard twitch in open water pockets and not really moving it forward.  I get crushed doing that and holy smokes is it fun..  Don't do this with expensive lures.....you will lose them